Preferred teaching/learning methods

I posted a message on the board a couple of weeks ago and received some great responses, so thank you to those who responded. Now I have another question, this time on a slightly different topic.

As you may remember I created an online web design school called simply enough "The Web Design School." I have had a good bit of success so far as I have had 20 students sign up over the past few weeks, and I am getting two articles written about me.

The reason for this post is because I am at a point that I am still trying to differentiate myself from the other web design schools. The way it stands now I am teaching several topics that my competition doesn't teach, but what I am looking at now is my method of teaching. It is pretty basic now, text and screen captures.

One of my competitors uses all video to teach his courses, WordNet University - http://www.wordnetuniversity.com - and this is a great idea, but I want to stand out from him.

So what I am looking at is either changing or modifying my methods of teaching. From what I have experienced the following are the most common methods:

1) Text - reading books, etc.

2) Videos - online, VCR, etc.

3) Classroom - teacher upfront, possibly using one or both of the above methods.

So, to get to my question, what is your preferred method of learning or teaching? If you have some ideas that could help me I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
Chad Hardy
The Web Design School
http://www.thewebdesignschool.com


The Web Design School